enascent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin enascens, present participle of enasci (“to spring up”), from e (“out”) + nasci (“to be born”).

Adjective

enascent (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Coming into being; nascent.
   • (Can we date this quote?), William Warburton, Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections.

     in which, you just get the first glimpse, as it were, of an enascent equivocation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enascent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• canteens